Blog post with links to the best scopes from this video: https://backfire.tv/scope

I bought 10 rifle scopes to give you a completely unbiased review of the best rifle scopes under $500. The scopes considered are all approximately 414 magnification, which is very common for a hunting and general purpose field scope.

Special thanks to Blackhound for sending me their scope to review when I wasn't able to purchase one since they were out of stock. Blackhound is a great company with excellent customer support. I suspect the copy I received is an outlier with the top turret problem. I will continue to support them in the future.